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CoverLifters & Leaners [level: Medium]
Matt Carlson: Bio and other works | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
RELEASED: August 2025
voicing: SAB | catalog number: SBMP 1835 | duration: c. 3’01 | price: $2.90
accompaniment: piano


A new uplifting piece by best-selling composer Matt Carlson, for developing SAB choirs with piano accompaniment. Set to a unique poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, this work invites us all to reflect on how we relate to one another. Do we ease the way for others, or do we place too much burden on those around us? “Lifters and Leaners” explores these contrasting approaches, encouraging us to lift each other up, and concludes with an open-ended question: Which one are you?


performance by: University of North Texas College of Music - Matt Carlson, conductor [© all rights reserved]

Order CLICK HERE: See and Hear the Complete Score or download a perusal copy: HERE

CLICK HERE: Read the Text or Poem
The Two Kinds of People

There are two kinds of people on earth today;
Just two kinds of people, no more, I say.
Not the sinner and saint, for it’s well understood,
That the good are half bad, and the bad are half good.
Not the happy and sad, for the swift flying years
Bring each one their laughter and each one their tears.
No; the two kinds of people on earth I mean,
Are the people who lift and the people who lean.
And, oddly enough, you will find, as I’ve seen,
There’s only one lifter to twenty to lean.
Which one are you? Are you easing the load
Of overtaxed lifters, who toil down the road?
Or are you a leaner, who lets others share
Your portion of labor and worry and care?

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(adapted by the composer)

CLICK HERE: Choral Tracks (Practice made simple)


Lifters & Leaners choral track bundle contains a part dominant track for each voice part, a balanced voices track, and an accompaniment track if the work is not a cappella (the accompaniment is also included with the part dominant and balanced voices track). Get more information and listen to samples HERE. Please note that the choral score is not included in the bundle and needs to be ordered separately.

Price: $49.99
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